Have you seen this man?
 

http://www.thisman.org/history.htm

HISTORY

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.

At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Moreover, no living man has ever been recognized as resembling the man of the portrait by the people who have seen this man in their dreams.

The aim of this website is:

- to help those who have seen this man in their dreams and to foster communication among them;
- to understand who this man is and why he appears in an apparently pattern-less array of situations in the dreams of such diverse human subjects.

Pictures here: http://www.thisman.org/portraits.htm

I am a bit skeptical about this. When I dream about a person I haven't met, I have never remembered their faces, let alone detailed facial features.. though maybe it's different if it's from a recurring dream.

That's one of the most featureless faces I've ever seen... bs in my opinion but hey

Viral marketing. Do a WHOIS on the IP.

^Umm... what are we supposed to find out from that... @_@_@.@

Anyway, I think that face is creepy. >.>

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I threw a bold on the relevant piece of data.

Well now i know i'll be seeing him in my nightmares..

@_@

OMG! Thats .......me

Haha, I dunno thought it was entertaining... must say though
the face is kinda creepy.

I'm wondering what movie or product they're going to try to push with it.

Se7en 2

That face is creepy O.o

/scared

Wouldn't that be 4t33n?

lmfao!

I saw him once... he was in the park when i was 3 in a long trench coat, offering children candy in his pocket and saying they could pet his puppy if they climbed into his black, windowless van.

In all seriousness, though, i dont see what they could really market from it. Time will tell whether or not it's a marketing scheme, but if it's real, it'd be worth looking into.

Because an Italian company named Guerriglia Marketing would own and operate a legitimate site about dream psychology instead of being some sort of viral marketing campaign.

From the main page of their website(via Google Translate):

1. Guerrilla Marketing is a set of non-conventional communication techniques that achieves maximum visibility with minimum investment
2. Guerrilla Marketing strategies to develop the market through the staging of pseudo-events designed to integrate company's image
3. Guerrilla Marketing exploits the need for new Media and the permeability of its mechanisms to promote ideas, brands or products
4. Guerrilla Marketing Program and inoculated in the media system memetic virus can replicate itself in the minds of consumers
5. Guerrilla Marketing is a process of dissipation of the trust that still puts the consumer in the economy as a whole for the benefit of the success of a single company:

wtf.

I'm going to chalk that one up as lost in translation.

Hey, didnt say it wasnt likely that it's a hoax. Just saying that the implications would be interesting if it wasnt, and wondering what the hoax would be supporting, assuming that such a theory is true. i could see it perhaps being a movie... but im not sure.

Also, most marketing sites are more well done than that. They must be on a low budget.

So they're trying to prove that they can market something cheaply, and get lotsa attentions, regardless of whether what they're advertising made sense?

Sounds to me like they're advertising for themselves... AND IT'S WORKING! Look at us! xD

Back to the topic of the man himself: Does he look somewhat like peewee herman with a rounder head to anyone else?

he looks like that guy from the Mr.Bean goes on a holiday(or w/e) movie... o_o

You mean Mr. Bean?

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keat...es/mr-bean.jpg

http://moblog.net/media/m/i/s/mister...thismanorg.jpe

meh. i see a slight resemblance...

...Now im worried he'll get into my dreams. D:

o.0 I see none.

im the man everyone!!!!! :ninja:

"Rowan Atkinson: This man in your dreams"

Fixed.

It looks like Mr. Sulu from Star Trek to me. :laugh:

i'm telling you...

http://www.thisman.org/thisman.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zwW1QO7Q44...eWeeHerman.jpg

I wonder if they might be making Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil into a movie. That could be Satan's "everyman" appearance.